Plus: Olly wonders why the Black Eyed Peas are so keen to shut things down; Helen hates children who have far better business sense than she has, or ever will have; and Martin the Sound Man thinks an ornamental fence is no obstacle to ardour.

In this week’s Bit of Crap on the App (available for iDevices and Android) we go more bananas for bananas, except for bananas that are a year old.

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I’m a bit behind in the podcasts because iTunes unsubscribed me at some point so I just today listened to episode 242. I have a couple of comments.

When you started the question about the history of word processed literature I immediately thought of Jerry Pornelle. He was a quirky sort of fellow who used to write a column in the early 80’s in Byte magazine where he documented his experiences as a simple “user” of personal computers. (A user who seemed to receive every new gadget direct from the manufacturers.) Making these gadgets work was a non-trivial exercise in those days and he would document his problems and successes. In any case, since he was a writer, word processing software was a recurring topic and he usually included updates on the progress of his which I’m sure included Oath of Fealty.

One more quick item: eating bananas in the presence of others is always offensive. They are a very smelly fruit. I don’t know how I hold my marriage together through my wife’s banana habit.

Hi! Matthew Kirschenbaum here. I’m at 19:50, right between the fish in plastic bags and bananas.

Couple,of things: Stephen King definitely wasn’t the first writer to use a word processor–lots of high profile authors, including Michael Crichton and Isaac Asimov, had already gotten into the game. King’s story, “Word Processor of the Gods,” does have a pretty good claim to being the first piece of extended fiction *about* a word processor though.

Track Changes (my book) will be out next year. In the meantime, though, I’ll have a new piece in Slate in a couple of weeks that in fact offers a pretty confident answer to the question of Who Was First. Two hints: it’s not who you think it was, and it’s earlier than you think.

There are quite a lot of British-style earteries in in West-LA, Santa Monica and the beach cities but I understand that there are about 250k expat Brits living here, so they might be focusing on people who feel the need for horse meat burgers.